Copley Society (Boston, Mass.) · [Boston, Press of G.H. Ellis, etc. · leaf 170
hher own felicity. Pre-Raphaelitism, medievalism, pointillism, chroma-tism; wilful and capricious lookings back or lookingsforward; theory upon theory; fad upon fad—shouldall these sickly innovations be committed to the tomb,their loss will not affect us vitally. But alas for artwhen man should… … esteem the shape and soul of men and things, not asthey might have been before, or may be after him, butas they bear him company between the actual limitsof his birth and death. For this—the earnest, undi-vided study of his days alone—alone can yield him anapproximated knowledge of the perfect…
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